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Thread #122035 Message #2680789
Posted By: Ebbie
15-Jul-09 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
This Fairbanks News-Miner editorial board, like other newspapers in Alaska has not been able to meet with Sarah Palin, due, apparently to her mistrust of the "liberal" media (Fairbanks, by the way, is NOT liberal). In a radio interview she cited Walter Cronkite's opinion - but took it out of context.
She ain't nice.
"She has Changed"
"She did it again on Friday, posting on Twitter in advance of her appearance on KFAR radio in Fairbanks: "Candidly, I love radio vs some newspapers bc... 'Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen.' W. Cronkite"
"Of course, the governor has misinterpreted the quotation for her own use. Cronkite, in the 1973 interview with Playboy magazine, used the word "liberal" as meaning open-minded.
"PLAYBOY: Implicit in the (Nixon) administration's attempts to force the networks to "balance" the news is a conviction that most newscasters are biased against conservatism. Is there some truth in the view that television newsmen tend to be left of center?
"CRONKITE: Well, certainly liberal, and possibly left of center as well. I would have to accept that.
"PLAYBOY: What's the distinction between those two terms?
"CRONKITE: I think the distinction is both clear and important. I think that being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncommitted to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."